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The main armament of Thetis-class ships consisted of 20 mm and 40 mm guns, Mk 46 Mod5 torpedoes and mines and anti-submarine (A/S) mortars. The ships were also equipped with sonar . Later the A/S mortars were replaced by a second 40 mm gun and the single torpedo tubes by triple mountings.
In or around February 1942, Thetis was classified as a patrol craft and given the hull classification symbol WPC-115. [3] Thetis ' s antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training missions were conducted along with local patrol and escort duties out of Key West from 1941 to June 1945. On 13 June 1942, Thetis located U-157 and sunk her in a single depth ...
USCGC Thetis (WMEC-910) is a United States Coast Guard Famous-class medium endurance cutter. She is the 10th ship of the Famous Class cutters designed and built for the U.S. Coast Guard and the third Coast Guard cutter to bear the name. [ 1 ]
At least two classes of frigates have been named Thetis after their lead ship: Thetis-class frigate, a pair of steam frigates built for British Royal Navy in the 1840s and then sold to the Prussian Navy; Thetis-class patrol vessel, three patrol vessels of the Royal Danish Navy built in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus is a 1630–1632 painting in the workshop of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. It was acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. [ 1 ]
HMS Thetis was a 46-gun Leda-class fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was first commissioned in 1823 and was assigned to the South America Station three years later. The ship was wrecked in 1830 off Cape Frio , Brazil , with the loss of 22 crewmen; most of her cargo of bullion was successfully salvaged.
1.3 to 2 in (33 to 51 mm) deck, no belt HMS Thetis was an Apollo -class second-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy , launched on 13 December 1890. Her first significant mission was service in the Bering Sea Patrol with American warships in a combined effort to suppress poaching in the Bering Sea .
Dysschema thetis, the northern giant flag moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug in 1836. It is found from the south-western United States to north-western Mexico. [1] The wingspan is 85–95 mm. [2] The larvae feed on Asteraceae species. [3]